Christmas Past: ‘The Sorrowful Christmas of 1899’ – The Orkney News

Christmas Past: ‘The Sorrowful Christmas of 1899’

‘May this mad war the latest be/Which we who live shall never see’

December 17, 2022

1–2 minutes

Boer War, Christmas, Culture, Orkney Herald and Advertiser, Peace, poem, South African War, W. Simpson Hay, war

Ref. Orkney Herald and Advertiser 27th December 1899.

Royal Inniskilling Regiment depicted at Tugela illustration by Lance Thackeray (1869-1916)

The South African War

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